59 occurrences

'Trees' in the Bible

And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

Verse ConceptsAccording To Its KindTreesGod Seeing All The EarthPerfection Of CreationHerbsPlanting SeedsFlowersMarijuana

And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

Verse ConceptsFood DefinedFood PermittedNASB

So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border thereof round about, were made sure

Verse ConceptsCaves For Burying

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBlackCovering The EarthDarkness During DaytimeGreenRemaining FoodAnimals EatingHarming Trees

And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as their uncircumcision: three years shall they be as uncircumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsCultivationThree YearsEating Forbidden FoodFirst fruits

And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of TabernaclesSeven DaysFoliageWillowsBrooks

then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Verse ConceptsNatureRainWeather, God's Sovereignty OverGifts From God, TemporalGod Sending Rainsisterhood

and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Verse ConceptsUseless Labour

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?

Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentEcological ConcernsFortsTreesFelling TreesSharp ToolsHarming Trees

Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.

Verse Conceptsbugs

And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

Verse ConceptsGallowsHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfFive ThingsKilling KingsAction Until EveningPeople Hung To Death

And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this very day.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsCaves For BuryingCorpses Of Other PeoplePlaces To This Day

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign thou over us.

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMetaphorical TreesOlive TreesMoralityJudging Others Actions

But the olive-tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?

Verse ConceptsTreesThe Honourable Will Be HonouredOlive Trees

And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical Trees

But the fig-tree said unto them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?

Verse ConceptsSweetness

And the trees said unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?

Verse ConceptsAlcoholEffect Of WineHuman Comfort

Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.

Verse ConceptsBrambles

And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsCedarShadowsBramblesBurning PlantsPerforming The Truth

And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersAxesTools

And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

Verse ConceptsCedarHyssopPlantsRelation Of Animals To ManBeauty Of NatureFishPets

And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the fountains of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir-hareseth only they left the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy before Jehovah; For he cometh to judge the earth.

Verse ConceptsForestsJudgesThe Nature Of The Judgement

and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfOlivesFoliageMyrtle

and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of Jehovah;

Verse ConceptsClaimsFirst fruitsResponsibility

and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestGrindingFractions, One TenthTithesFirst fruitsTithes And Offering

They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

Verse ConceptsAxesFelling Trees

Let the field exult, and all that is therein; Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy

Verse ConceptsForestsChoirsThose Singing Praisebaseball

The trees of Jehovah are filled with moisture , The cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

Verse ConceptsCedar

He smote their vines also and their fig-trees, And brake the trees of their borders.

Verse ConceptsFig treeHarming Trees

Mountains and all hills; Fruitful trees and all cedars;

I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

Verse ConceptsOrchardsGardens

I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;

Verse ConceptsWater IrrigationPools

As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Verse ConceptsApplesYoung Lovers

Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

Verse ConceptsFrankincenseCinnamon

And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

Verse ConceptsForestsdoubtersPessimismAllegiancesGroups Trembling

And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.

Verse ConceptsFew Things

He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.

Verse ConceptsTreesFelling Treeswoodworkingtoughness

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

Verse ConceptsFigures Of SpeechClappingecstasyHillsJoy, Of IsraelSingingSongsThankfulnessPeace, Promised ToApplauseGoing In PeaceJoyjoyfuljoyfulness

For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfSuffering, HardshipFelling Trees

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger and my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Verse ConceptsNot ExtinguishingBoth Men And Animals AffectedHarming Trees

whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsPeople RememberingServing AsherahWorship At Trees

Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the vine-tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsThings Like People

And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenSmall ThingsMoist ThingsHarming TreesPutting Things DownThings Lifted UpThings On High

The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field.

Verse ConceptsWater For PlantsPlants Growing UpGrowing

Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot them forth.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingThings On High

I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulGarden Of Eden, TheEden

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Verse ConceptsPitsSon Of ManGoing Down To The PitHow Death Is InevitableThings On HighWhy It Happened

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

Verse ConceptsMourning DeathHarming TreesThe Fact Of Death

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadGroups TremblingMetaphorical TreesHuman Comfort

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsUncircumcisionDeath Of CreaturesThings Like PeopleDying With The UncircumcisedPutting Things Down

Now when I had returned, behold, upon the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical TreesTwo Sidedrelaxing

The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.

Verse ConceptsPalm TreesFruitFig treedrynessApplesPomegranatesHarming TreesLack Of Rejoicing

O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodBurning PlantsHarming TreesI Pray

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